Vehicle carpet-holding spring.



PATENTED SEPT. 10, 1907.

D. F. ARMSTRONG.

VEHICLE CARPET HOLDING SPRING.

'APPLIOATION FILED NOV. 30. 1906.

DANIEL FORRESTER ARMSTRONG, OF MALLORYTOWN, ONTARIO, CANADA.

VEHICLE CARPET-HOLDING SPRING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 10, 1907.

Application filed November 30,1906. Serial No- 345,832.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL FoRREs'rER ARMSTRONG, a subject of the Kingof Great Britain, residing at Mallorytown, in the county of Leeds andProvince of Ontario, Dominion of Canada, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Vehicle Carpet- Holder Springs, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention has for its object to hold in place without nailing, orotherwise fastening, the carpet on the floor of a vehicle whether thevehicle has a flat or oval surface: the springs to be placed at the endor at the sides of the space inclosed in the vehicle box, or both,

as will be required to keep the carpet close to every portion of thefloor of the vehicle, and the flat or round steel spring to be usedaccording to the space available where a spring is required to be used.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing in which Figures1, 2, and 3 are perspective views of portions of a vehicle body havingthe carpet holders applied thereto.

In the drawings reference characters 1 and 2 represent a side and end ofa vehicle body, respectively; 3 and 4 the sills; 5 the bottom, and 9cthe carpet covering the same.

In Fig. 1 of the drawings, D, E, A, and F represent the holders. Theseholders are each made from a flat piece of steel secured to the sill bya nail or screw and having its point turned downward to impinge upon andhold the carpet covering in position upon the bottom of thevehicle body.

In Fig. 2, G, H, B, I, represent holders having a crimp adjacent to thesill so as to carry the body ofthe holder down to and to lie flatagainst the carpet.

In 3, .I, K, C, L, represent the holders each made from a piece of wirehaving its point turned down and inserted in the sill and having itsbody portion extended to impinge upon and hold the carpet covering inposition.

I claim as my invention In a. vehicle body and in combination with thesills thereof, of spring carpet holders secured to said sills, andhaving their points or portions of their bodies bent downwardly so as toimpinge upon the carpet, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to these specifications inthe presence of two subscribing witnesses.

Witnesses WM. SMITH, ALDA M. TRAYNOR.

